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Saturday 2004-09-11 - Mijnsherenland, the Netherlands
Reunion!
This morning, I meet up with Carla behind Central Station in Amsterdam; Thom picks us up there with his car, and in Rotterdam we pick up the “girls” from the north who took the train to here (with a detour: they managed to get into the wrong carriage, so we have to wait a bit for them). Then on to Henk and Vera’s house in Mijnsherenland where we are received with champagne! The two of them went to an awful lot of effort to entertain us with lots of delicious food, nice drinks, and funny glasses that serve as conversation pieces — as if we needed that! — to drink from.
We admire each other’s photos, order prints from each other, watch video and slides, and Caroline adds a bit of Turkish spice with a professional belly dance performance! And everyone “admires” my plaster foot of course: most are as suprised as I was that it was actually broken. We all go out for a little walk around the neighborhood, expertly guided by Henk and Vera with interesting background information about what we see.
It’s really nice to spend some time all together again — the “family” feeling is still there, and there really isn’t enough time. Travelling together for over two months really brings you close (if you don’t spoil it by being totally obnoxious, that is). We all agree we’d like to have a second reunion and a tentative date is set for that.
